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There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page -- Rachel Cooke * Guardian * Toibin has a hawk-like eye for literary subtleties, and a generosity towards his subjects that is warm and unacademic. * The Sunday Times * Toibin has a hawk-like eye for literary subtleties, and a generosity towards his subjects that is warm and unacademic. * The Sunday Times * Full of insight and intrigue * Observer * Searching, funny, generous * Irish Times * Subtle, witty and often deeply moving * New Statesman * If there is a more brilliant writer than Toibin working today, I don't know who that would be -- Karen Joy Fowler Toibin is a supple, subtle thinker, alive to hints and undertones, wary of absolute truths * New Statesman * A consistently revealing look at how writers' relationships have influenced their work * Sunday Telegraph on 'New Ways to Kill Your Mother' * A wide-ranging and enlightening study of the potentially stifling family and the individual spirit of the writer * Sunday Times on 'New Ways to Kill Your Mother' *